Aron Gurevich
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Aron Yakovlevich Gurevich (also spelled Aaron Gurevich
Gurevich's work was informed by
Life and career
Aron Gurevich was born in Moscow on May 12, 1924, to a
Aron Gurevich returned to Kalinin and became a professor in 1963.[2]
In 1966 Gurevich joined Moscow Institute of Philosophy, but he was fired after publishing Problems in the Origins of Feudalism in Western Europe (Problemy genezisa feodalizma v zapadnoi Evrope(1970)), where he contested the theory on origins of feudalism adopted in Marxist historiography,[2] and was denounced for his employment of structuralist methods. Thereafter on he was barred from academic teaching. He was employed in the Information Department of the Institute for World History in Moscow until 1992.[2][5] He won the 1988 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
In 1989 during Perestroika Gurevich was allowed to exit the country for the first time, and he lectured abroad in 1989–1991.
In 1993 he became a head of the Institute of the World History at the Moscow State University.[2]
In 1998 he became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[6]
Publications
- Gurevich A. J. Categories of Medieval culture. Trans. by G. L. Campbell. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. ISBN 0-7100-9578-3
- Gurevich, Aron. Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perception. Trans. by János M. Bak & Paul A. Hollingsworth. Cambridge: ISBN 0-521-38658-6
- Bornstein, Daniel. Review of Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perception by Aron Gurevich; János M. Bak; Paul A. Hollingsworth. Church History, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Jun., 1990), pp. 234–235.
- Van Engen, John. Review of Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perception by Aron Gurevich. Journal of Social History, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 164–167.
- Madigan, Kevin. Review of Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perception by Aron Gurevich; Janos M. Bak; Paul A. Hollingsworth. The Journal of Religion, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Apr., 1990), pp. 254–255.
- Bornstein, Daniel. Review of Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perception by Aron Gurevich; János M. Bak; Paul A. Hollingsworth.
- Gurevich, Aaron. Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages. Ed. by J. Howlett. Chicago: ISBN 0-226-31083-3
- Carruthers, Mary J. Review of Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages by Aaron Gurevich; Jana Howlett. The American Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 4 (Oct., 1993), pp. 1220.
- Wylie, Jonathan. Review of Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages by Aaron Gurevich. Ethnohistory, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Spring, 1994), pp. 331–333.
- Gurevich, Aaron. The Origins of European Individualism. Trans. by K. Judelson. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. ISBN 0-631-17963-1
References
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i Ефимов, Артем (2006-08-06). История и судьба, или Сага Арона Гуревича (in Russian). Lenta.ru. Retrieved 2008-08-31.
- ^ a b Yelena Mazour-Matusevič, ',' in Yelena Mazour-Matusevič, Alexandra Schecket Korros (eds.), Saluting Aron Gurevich: Essays in History, Literature and Other Related Subjects, BRILL 2010 p.xiii.
- ^ Harbana Mukhía, 'Aron Gurevich:A View from India', in Yelena Mazour-Matusevič,'Saluting Aron Gurevich: Essays in History, Literature and Other Related Subjects, 'in Alexandra Schecket Korros (eds.), Saluting Aron Gurevich: Essays in History, Literature and Other Related Subjects, BRILL 2010 pp.1-10, p.3.
- Times Literary Supplement, 19 April 2085p.437.
- ^ "A.I. Gurevich (1924 - 2006)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
External links
- Mazour-Matusevich, Yelena & Svetlana Neretina (2006). Obituary: Aaron Jakovlevich Gurevich. The Medieval History Journal 9 (2), v–viii.
- Mazour-Matusevich, Yelena (2005). Writing Medieval History: An Interview with Aaron Gurevich. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 35 (1), 121–157.
- Le Goff, Jacques (2004). Saluting Aron Gurevich. The Medieval History Journal7 (2), 163–167.
- Mazour-Matusevich, Yelena & Sean Bledsoe (2004). On Concepts, History and Autobiography: An Interview with Aron Gurevich. The Medieval History Journal 7 (2), 169–197.
- Ebner, Martin (1996). Interview with Aron Gurevich. (in German) Neue Zürcher Zeitung 13.05.1996